Public/Private Partnership, Growth and Poverty Reduction Project

Country:

Cameroon

Publication Date:

Aug 23, 2002

Funding Agency:

World Bank

Buyer:

Education Quality Improvement Program (EQIP) Phase 2 PAQSET II
Direction de la Distribution

Original Language:

French

Address:

Direction de la Logistique - Division Approvisionnement
38, Rue Kémal ATATURK,
Bâtiment « G » 3ème étage
Tunis 1080
Tunisia

Telephone:

216)(1) 341 311 Poste 4190

Fax:

(216)(1) 349 981/ 330 174/ 341 401

******PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP, GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION PROJECT

General Procurement Notice
Publication Date: 23 August 2002

CAMEROON

Loan No. 33590

The Government of the Republic of Cameroon has received a loan from
the International Development Association in the amount of USD
20,900,000 equivalent toward the cost of the Public/Private
Partnership, Growth and Poverty Reduction Project, and it intends to
apply the proceeds of this loan to payments for goods, works, related
services and consulting services to be procured under this project.
Bidding for contracts financed by the International Development
Association will be governed by the procurement rules of the World
Bank.

The Public/Private Partnership for Growth and Poverty Reduction
Project aims to improve business environment and competitiveness
through privatization and effective public/private partnership with
the view to increase private investment; and strengthen the poverty
alleviation focus in the government's economic management. The
project consists of three mutually reinforcing components designed to
improve competitiveness and provide the poor with greater access to
services. 1) Enhanced competitiveness will provide continuing support
for privatization of public enterprises; provide institutional support
to strengthen the new regulatory agencies and committees; and assist
the Competitiveness Committee in defining and implementing an action
plan to facilitate increases in firm-level productivity and streamline
business regulations. 2) The financial sector will implement the
Government's reform program for the modernization of the pension
system; implement the regulations applicable to micro-credit finance
institutions; restructure the postal savings office and checking banks
in the absence of commercial banks outside urban areas; and support
the establishment of a financial market to foster long term debt and
equity financing. 3) Partnership for poverty reduction will establish
a baseline for poverty through household surveys; help implement the
government's poverty alleviation strategy; and finance the
Administrative and Financial Unit.

The project will include the following goods, works and services:

- (I) Enhanced competitiveness (US$10.51 million)
- (A) Privatization (US$5.89 million). Continuing support for
privatization of public enterprises including: the main utilities
companies (telecommunications, electricity and water),
agroindustry, and attracting new investors to the sector);
port-related industrial and commercial activities; air transport
companies and infrastructure; and the petroleum product storage
facility. It will also assist the national petroleum company (SNH)
to refocus on its core business. Lastly, it will launch IPOs for
the formerly state owned companies to support GOC’s objective of
encouraging significant local participation; (Legal, accounting,
auditing, business, management and related services)
- (B) Infrastructure framework, pilots (US$3.0 million).
Institutional support to strengthen: (a) the new regulatory
agencies and committees (telecommunications, electricity,
railways, water, and air transport); (b) the Privatization
Technical Unit's capacity to provide advice and support for
concessions and contracting-out of public activities at the
national and local levels and promote pilot public/private
partnerships in infrastructure and other areas; and (c) the
organization and management of the Water Development Account, the
Universal Service Fund (telecommunications) and the Rural
Electrification Agency; (Institution management services)
- (C) Competitiveness committee (US$1.62 million). Support the
Competitiveness Committee, help it define and implement an action
plan to facilitate increases in firm-level productivity and
streamline business regulations with a view to reducing
transaction costs, including the introduction of arbitration
mechanisms, pending reforms in the judicial branch of Government
(Judicial services)
- (II) The financial sector (US$3.68 million)
- (A) Social Security Reform (US$2.0 million). It will implement
the Government’s reform program for the modernization of the
pension system, including breaking CNPS into three separate
activities (family allowances, workers’ compensation and
pensions), to be managed privately (Financial consultancy
services)
- (B) Regulatory framework for micro-finance institutions (US$0.40
million). It will implement the regulations applicable to
micro-credit finance institutions to ensure that they became
efficient savings institutions and encourage investment through
proper use of their resources; (Financial consultancy services)
- (C) Development of Financial Markets (US$0.20 million). It will
refocus the Société Nationale de Recouvrementdes Créances (SRC) as
a commercially sustainable debt collection agency (factoring);
(Financial markets administration services)
- (D) Postal banks (US$0.60 million). It will restructure the
postal savings office and checking banks in the absence of
commercial banks outside urban areas; (Financial consultancy
services)
- (E) National Recovery Agency (US$0.48 million). It will support
the establishment of a financial market to foster long term debt
and equity financing (Financial markets administration services)
- (III) Partnership for poverty reduction (US$3.85)
- (A) establish a baseline for poverty through household surveys
and constitution of a database; and coordinate with civil society
and other beneficiaries to monitor poverty in the country on a
regular basis; (Database services)
- (B) help implement GOC’s poverty alleviation strategy by
introducing pro-active measures aimed at placing poverty
alleviation at the core of economic management decisions (Business
and management consultancy and related services)

Procurement of contracts financed by the loan will be conducted
through the procedures specified in Procurement under IBRD Loans and
IDA Credits[1] of the World Bank, and is open to all bidders from
eligible source countries as defined in the guidelines. Consulting
services will be selected in accordance with Selection and Employment
of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers[2] of the World Bank.

Specific procurement notices for contracts to be bid under
international competitive bidding (ICB) procedures will be announced,
as they become available, in the Development Gateway Market.

Interested eligible bidders can contact the implementing agency
directly at the address below, to obtain additional information, or to
be included in the mailing list.

Unité de Gestion Administrative et Financière
Mr. Thaddée Yossa
Immeuble SNI 9eme étage
Yaoundé
Cameroon
Tel: (237) 23.97.50
Fax: (237) 23.51.088

[1] http://www.worldbank.org/html/opr/procure/guidelin.html
[2] http://www.worldbank.org/html/opr/consult/contents.html

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